Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Full disclosure, I'm starting to get a little large and soft around the middle myself -- such is aging -- so I try to avoid this kind of criticism. But goddamn:

...New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) is warning against a nation filled with "a bunch of people sittin' on a couch waiting for their next government check."
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"I think it's really simple: it's because government's now telling them 'stop dreaming, stop striving, we'll take care of you.' We're turning into a paternalistic entitlement society."

And he's going to suggest that people who expect decent services from their government, which, last I checked, is still nominally a democracy, i.e., self-government, i.e., services from ourselves, are somehow lazy?